Dakota79 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 It looks like Philly will beat us to a super tall. In the Chronicle today it says Comcast will build the largest building in the US outside of NYC. It should be a Houston company doing that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 You're sure that's not outside of NYC and Chicago?Harrumph at the whole thing. Oil companies won't build tall because they're scared of looking bad in the press. Harrumph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Yeah, I have to admit a bit of jealousy. 59 stories, the bottom 45 of which are offices with a Four Seasons hotel taking up the rest. This will be the tallest outside of NYC and Chicago. Interestingly, Comcast is getting $40m in state and city financing. The starchitect is Norman Foster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Are they going to get out of the 900-footer they built a few years ago? Edit: Guess so. I'm not a huge fan of the design, and Norman Foster is about 10 years past his prime. It sort of fits their skyline but I usually don't get in a jealous rage when the only way they can beat us by Height is from a Spire. As far as I'm concerned the the US Bank Building in Los Angeles is the only one that has us beat outside of NYC & Chicago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Congrats to Philly.. We already have 2 supertalls, so let them have theirs.. Hopefully we get another in the near future though. And will this be taller than the new wilshire(?) tower in la, or the new tower in San Francisco? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moore713 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Great the Philly boosters are never going to shut up now..lol they never did get over Houston taking the number 4 spot from them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Town Man Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Yeah, I have to admit a bit of jealousy. 59 stories, the bottom 45 of which are offices with a Four Seasons hotel taking up the rest. This will be the tallest outside of NYC and Chicago. Interestingly, Comcast is getting $40m in state and city financing. The starchitect is Norman Foster.I guess mixed use is the way to get a tall building if you don't need that much office. We won't get the investment for that type of mixed use until we have a thriving downtown walking and retail scene. To have that we need these residential buildings to go up first. Paint the fence, Daniel san. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClutchCity Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Congrats to Philly.. We already have 2 supertalls, so let them have theirs.. Hopefully we get another in the near future though. And will this be taller than the new wilshire(?) tower in la, or the new tower in San Francisco?Yes Wilshire Grand is 1100' and Transbay is 1070'. Both have crowns or spires like this tower has. It's surprising this is only 996' to the roof but they threw that 125' spire on it and boom tallest building outside Chicago and NYC. If you look on SSP, they have models that actually show the roof line of the hotel is actually shorter then the other Comcast building that they completed like 5-6 years ago. I guess a rooftop restaurant will push it's roofline over the other. Maybe Chevron should slap on a spire haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Lol I said the same thing a while back about Chevron (jokingly of course) in reference to atlantas supertall that's only like 50something stories with a tall spire/crown as well. It would be cool, but I don't think just any ornament crown would work for downtown..and wow.. Comcast is literally reshaping Phillys skyline with the recent Comcast tower and this new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purdueenginerd Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Rendering? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Owl Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 My suspicions of overpaying for Comcast cable tv have been overwhelmingly confirmed by this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgriff Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 My suspicions of overpaying for Comcast cable tv have been overwhelmingly confirmed by this. I guess the oil companies are wise not to build too tall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakota79 Posted January 16, 2014 Author Share Posted January 16, 2014 King Owl's response is perfect! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 I had to laugh at this rendering of the interior: The open laptop and the conspicuous issues of "Digit" and "Wired" tell us that - wait! - these are Tech Savvy people! They understand "The Internet"! And they are hipsters to boot! The accompanying article is just as breathless: In short, this is what the future of the growing Comcast campus at 18th and Arch Streets will look like: Suits to the east, hipster engineers in cutoffs and flip-flops to the west. With this project, Comcast stands to reformulate the architectural imagery of the technology industry. An urban icon for the wired world has been long overdue. The tower's simplicity is as potentially radical as Walter Gropius' Fagus factory was in 1913, because it recognizes that urban skyscrapers are not just for paper pushers, but also for collaboration and creativity. I could go on and on, but here's the link: http://www.philly.com/philly/home/20140116_Changing_Skyline__Comcast_tower_a_new_symbol_for_technology.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativehoustonion Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 For a building that tall it should make more of a statement. It looks like a building with a pen holder on top of it. I do not understand why Comcast needs all that office space. It was voted the top ten worst companies in 2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Remind me never to go to Filly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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